'Crash' Will Become a TV Show
Filed under: Drama, Home Entertainment, Remakes and Sequels
This year, television is going to get one heck of a drama! It's got all the ingredients for a hit. Sex. Dysfunction. Car Crashes. No, no, no. I kid. While I'd love a series based on David Cronenberg's Crash, especially if Elias Koteas was in any way attached, this is about that other one -- you know, the Crash that won the Oscar. Yahoo reports that the adaptation will be cable station Starz's first original drama series, with 13 one-hour episodes planned.The series even has handful of the film's names coming back behind the camera -- Paul Haggis, Bob Yari, Don Cheadle, and Mark R. Harris. As for in front of the camera -- no cast members have been picked yet, although production is scheduled to begin in the spring.
Now, I'm one of those people who actually really dug the movie. I thought it was interesting, thoughtful, and entirely gripping. I was happy to see it win the big statue. That being said, I wonder how this will play to audiences. Many people have noted it's heavy-handedness, so what will that mean for a weekly series? A few hours of it, sure, thirteen hours -- not so sure. What do you think?
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1-29-2008 @ 11:45AM
LRS62 said...
if by "interesting, thoughtful, and entirely gripping" you mean "cliched, vapid and dull", I completely agree with you.
One of the worst movies EVER to win an Oscar.
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1-29-2008 @ 12:49PM
LA26 said...
I was a big fan of the movie and I'm glad it will be returning.
Hopefully the story doesn't lose potency with it being stretched to a season format.
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1-29-2008 @ 1:03PM
Ryan said...
Oh man, I remember hearing this rumor around the time this won the oscar, and I prayed then that it wasn't true, and it seems my prayers have, once again, been ignored. Admittedly, television is where cliched, heavy handed, vacuous tripe like "Crash" belongs. But the thought of sitting through Haggis' ideas of what racism is on a weekly basis is very similar to what my concept of hell is.
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1-29-2008 @ 2:31PM
Philip said...
I think this is a wonderful idea! They can show it on Sunday mornings, therefore preempting any need I might have had to go to church. Instead, I can stay at home and be preached at, and condescended to. What a fabulous way to carry on the worst Oscar winning movie I ever saw.
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1-29-2008 @ 5:32PM
Marty said...
I can think of nothing worse. They should screen the show for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and they will will wilt before their very eyes. No person can endure THAT much torture!
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